Hay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House.
Hay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-oriel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hay Cottage, Hay Lane, Malborough
- OS grid reference
- SX 708 397
- Coordinates
- 50.24385, -3.81279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hay Cottage is a small house dating from the 18th century. It features whitewashed rubble walls, which may include some cob at the top, and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and gabled at the right end. There is a rendered brick stack at the gable end. The building has a two-room plan, with the original fireplace in the left-hand end wall blocked off, while the fireplace in the right-hand end wall may have been added later.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front with mid-20th century two-light metal-frame casements that have leaded panes. The centre of the three ground floor windows may cover a blocked doorway. To the left of this window is a 19th-century plank door, both of which are sheltered by a thatch hood. Inside, the beams and fireplace have been renewed.
Local climate
Hay Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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